Farrell hits milestone

Saturday’s 2-1 victory over the Twins supplied John Farrell with his 100th managerial victory, a feat that didn’t go unnoticed.

On Sunday in his pre-game chat, Farrell said that on his desk was a bottle of champagne courtesy of Jose Bautista.

“Honestly I didn’t know it until there was a bottle of champagne sitting in an ice cooler when I walked in (to his office), compliments of Jose Bautista,” Farrell said. “It’s a touch of class on his part.

“I don’t really get caught up in the number of wins and losses other than how our team is doing and where we are in the standings. We’re fortunate that we’ve got quality coaches here, and quality players are always going to make a manager look better and hopefully there’s a lot more of that in the future.”

FASHION POLICE

While in Oakland, Adam Lind decided to try to change his luck, which was running from poor to none, by sporting a high-socks look with the bottom of his pants coming to just below his knees. He wore his pants like that on Thursday, switched back to the pants-over-the-shoes look on Friday and then rolled the pants legs back up on Saturday. A superstitious thing going back and forth? Not quite. “It was cold Friday,” Lind said, solving the riddle. Game time temperature on Friday was around 10 C. We thought guys from Indiana were tougher than that. For Sunday’s game the pant legs were up.

THROWS A CURVE

Interim closer Casey Janssen recorded a 1-2-3 ninth inning Saturday for his second save of the season. In recording the second out of the inning he dropped in a beautiful curve to freeze Jamey Carroll on a 1-2 pitch. Janssen said it’s a pitch he has been working on to get hitters thinking. He usually comes at them hard-hard with his fastball and slider.

“You have to trust your stuff and even though it may not go exactly where you want it there’s only one way it’s going to get there and that’s to throw it,” Janssen said. “You’ve got to get them off the fastball a little bit. Even if you miss with it, they still have to honour it.”